Major William Evans

William Evans (born 1958) is a retired United States Army Reserve officer who served as a civil affairs officer in Talas during the territorial period. As a major attached to the territorial Department of Public Works in 1996–1997, he coordinated a program, funded by the US Department of Defense, that rebuilt 23 road bridges in the Talas and Kara-Buura valleys damaged during the First Iradi Civil War or neglected since the 1980s.^[1] Local contractors and former soldiers of the Provisional Government's militias were hired for the work. Evans later described the program in a US Army War College paper on post-conflict reconstruction.^[2]

References

1. ^ Talas Herald (9 October 1997). "Last of the river bridges reopens at Kara-Buura."
2. ^ Evans, William (2001). Bridges and Ballots: Civil Affairs in the Territory of Irad, 1993–1998. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: US Army War College.